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Opinion Watching the Violence in Israel From Abroad
Comic: An Israeli expat watched the violence in Israel from abroad. You can find Lior Zaltzman’s work at , Saturday, November 7.
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News Welcome to Haifa, the Israeli City That Refuses to Hate
At a bus station in downtown Haifa, handwritten signs in Hebrew, Arabic and Russian have been taped to the glass: “Arabs and Jews refuse to be enemies.” It’s perhaps a simplistic slogan for these charged times, but at least some Haifa residents appear to agree with it. Dozens had signed their names on the posters,…
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Fast Forward Israelis Demonstrate Against Gov’t in Tel Aviv, Call for Solution to Conflict
Thousands of Israelis demonstrated against the current government and called for a solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict. About 3,000 demonstrators met Saturday night in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square and marched to the Israel Defense Department headquarters. The demonstrators chanted slogans such as “Jews and Arabs don’t want to hate each other,” and “Israel, Palestine, two…
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Fast Forward Israel Claims Citizen Entered Syria Using Paraglider Over Golan Heights
Israel said on Sunday that one of its citizens, probably a member of the country’s Muslim Arab minority, had illegally flown to rebellion-wracked Syria by using a paraglider to cross the Golan Heights frontier. Israeli media gave the man’s age as 23 and quoted investigators as speculating that he sought to join Islamic State or…
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Fast Forward Rabbi Injured in Har Nof Synagogue Terror Attack Dies of Wounds
An Israeli man injured nearly a year ago in a terror attack on a synagogue in the Har Nof neighborhood of Jerusalem died of his injures. Thousands of people gathered on Saturday night for the funeral of Rabbi Haim Yechiel (Howie) Rothman. The funeral procession started at the Bnei Torah synagogue where the attack occurred…
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Opinion Does Gleaming Palestinian City on Hill Offer Hope Amid Violence?
A gleaming bus stop greets visitors on the main road to the new Palestinian city of Rawabi in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Construction equipment is busy carving blocks out of the hillsides. A sign directs traffic to the police station in one direction and to the showroom filled with scale models in another. A giant…
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Fast Forward Clashes Erupt as New Day of Rage’ Hits Israel
Clashes between Palestinians and Israeli soldiers broke out in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip on Friday during “Day of Rage” protests while diplomats tried to end more than three weeks of bloodshed. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said he was cautiously optimistic there was a way to defuse tensions after holding…
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News BDS Battle at Brooklyn College Is Written in Chalk
Just a trace of the chalk slogans is all that remains on the sidewalk outside the entrance to the West Quad section of Brooklyn College. But the slogans, part of a form of protest and expression that has surfaced on the Midwood campus this past month, are yet another indication of the longstanding tensions between…
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